<lanux128> just why another programming language?
<lanux128> anyone has any ideas why?
<lanux128> there must be a reason for google to get involved
<lanux128> in development languages
<rgdot> 'because they can' is probably the only reason
<app> because they have this problem in their company where they force employees to spend 20% of their time at work working on personal projects
<app> and this is probably one of those 20% time wasters made by one of their employees
<app> when martin was goofing off at work, he made 2dvr...imagine if he had worked at google, what they would have done with it
<app> http://2d.e-asm.org/
<mouser> <lanux128> there must be a reason for google to get involved
<mouser> <rgdot> 'because they can' is probably the only reason
<mouser> i think thats probably right
<mouser> another way to look at it is this
<hollow87> http://golang.org/doc/go_lang_faq.html#creating_a_new_language
<mouser> in every company, the coders there have little side projects
<hollow87> but yeah because they can basicly
<mouser> and no one ever hears about it. but google farts and the world holds a news conferece.
<hollow87> it was a side project that page says
<app> orkut was a side project too
<rgdot> microsoft has this thing called 'office labs grassroots projects'
<rgdot> on their site it says "Grassroots Projects are the direct result of employee initiative and ingenuity. "
<app> guy started his own social network that was invite only...he invited his friends who invited theirs who invited theirs...goal was eventually to have everyone in the world invited
<app> assuming that there are not any people in the world that really don't have any friends
<rgdot> I guess that's the MS equivalent
<hollow87> when martin was goofing off at work, he made 2dvr...imagine if he had worked at google, what they would have done with it << lol it would have become the new 2nd life :-p